The "Freedom of Speech Newsletter" is the communication medium, published four times each academic year, of the Freedom of Speech Interest Group, Western Speech Communication Association. Articles included in this issue are "What Is Academic Freedom For?" by Ralph Ross, "A Sociology of Free Speech" by Ray Heidt, "A Queer Interpretation fo the First Amendment: 'Homosexual' Acts Between Consenting Adults" by Sally Miller Gearhart, and "The Climate of Communication" by Herman Cohen. Also included are minutes of the November convention meeting and the text of a resolution commending Justice William O. Douglas, which was submitted to the S.C.A. Resolutions Committee, December 1975, by the chairman of the Commission on Freedom of Speech. (MKM)